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13th Jazz Bez International Jazz Festival
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The 13th Jazz Bez International Jazz Festival was held from 4 to 15 December 2013 in twelve cities of Ukraine and Poland. This year the Jazz Bez became a pro-EuroMaidan solidarity festival. The slogan of the Jazz Bez-2013 - ‘Jazz Without Fear!’.
 















| Most of the Jazz Bez participants, despite the turbulent political and revolutionary situation in Ukraine, had expressed their willingness to take part in the Festival, to hold concerts, and to donate the raised funds (as well as a portion of their honorariums) to the EuroMaidan needs. And for the first time the admission to all Festival concerts was free or by charitable contributions to the needs of EuroMaidan.
Even in revolutionary times music should not die down. Quite the contrary. The Festival was a success!
The concert halls were overcrowded, the foreign musicians played with great enthusiasm, and we, Ukrainians, felt ourselves to be Europeans. Ultimately, since the time of its launch in 2000 and till present, the Jazz Bez has been breaking the boundaries between Ukraine and Europe for already 13 years.
The 13th Jazz Bez has involved the Ukrainian and Polish cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Rivne, Lutsk, Ternopil , Ivano-Frankivsk, Lublin, Sanok, Gliwice, Przemysl and Nowica (Poland), the native village of the famous Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych . This year the jazz federation was joined for the first time by the city of Mostyska. As usual, the heart of the Festival was the city of Lviv
The Festival featured above150 musicians from Ukraine, Poland, USA, Israel, UK, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
PHOTO GALLERY:
Festival Photographers: Polina Pavlova, Rostyslav Pavlyk, Serhiy Horobets, Yevhen Kravs, Kostya Smolyaninov Photo:Maksym Balandyukh Photo:Yurko Dvornyk
VIDEO:
24 TV Channel / Jazz Bez / ZumbaLand 24 TV Channel / Jazz Bez / Mariana Sadovska AfishaLviv.net_ Mariana Sadovska  Marinita & Mark Eliyahu in Ternopil  Tatvamasi in Rivne  Jazz Bez in Przemysl 
PRESS:
Zbruc.Bozena Gorodnytska: Jazz Bez-Festival of Provocations (in Ukrainian) Varianty. Olya Vyshnya. Interview with Marians Sadovska (in Ukrainian) Ukrainska Pravda. Oleksandr Yudyn. Mystical Rhythm (in Ukrainian).
The Jazz Bez 2013 Participants:
- The Festival was opened on the 4th of December by the Ark Ovrutski Quartet, represented by the renowned Ukrainian contrabassist Ark Ovrutski in co with his American friends: Michael Thomas (saxophones), Joel Holmes (piano) and Jason Brown (drums). And then Joel Holmes has managed to play in Kyiv for the EuroMaidan community.
- Richard Feliks Styła, the charismatic legendary Polish guitarist and an intellectual to the core. Last time Mr Styła visited Lviv in 1970.
- Mariana Sadovska, a sincere and passionate Lviv-born and German-based Ukrainian singer, and her Cut The Cord project in collaboration with Christian Thomé, a known German percussionist;
- Kekko Fornarelli Trio, the known Italian virtuosos;
- HA Quartet, born in 2013 impressive Belarusian project;
- Project Evidence, represented by the famous Russian bassist Andrew Arnautov in co with Lviv musicians. The Evidence replaced the Komeda: Ahead band from Poland. Due to objective reasons the Polish musicians have not been able to get to Ukraine, but they donated money to Ukrainian EuroMaidan;
- The ZumbaLand band - maestros of Georgian ethno jazz. Before their performance in Lviv, the musicians spent several days at the EuroMaidan, joining Ukrainians in their struggle for Euro-integration;
- London-based WorldService jazz punk project, a superb combination of intense music and amusing performance;
- Dzyga's good friends: Marinita, a well-known and charismatic Ukrainian singer & composer in collaboration with Orhan Agabeyli, a recognised Ukrainian rpercussionist of Azerbaijani origin, Mark Eliahu, a renowned Azerbaijani kamanja and baglama player and Teymyr Phell, an unbelievable Israeli bass player;
- Tatvamasi Polish band presented avant-garde jazz based on folk music and accompanied by video art;
- JT Fresh band, represented by young, creative and talented jazz musicians from Kyiv. Their performance offered the jazz arrangements of Ukrainian songs;
- While the Festival, the Lviv audience has discovered one of the most powerful Ukrainian jazz phenomena - the Igor Hnydyn Project, led by one of the best (if not the best) Ukrainian drummers in collaboration with the members of the ShockolaD band. And the next day this the most famous Lviv-based ethno jazz band presented its Spivanochka / Folk Song debut music video;
- Unfortunately, the Polish Krzysztof Kobylinski Trio was forced to make changes in its line-up. Thus, the German percussionist Tom Dayan and Israeli guitarist Dmitry Gorelik were joined by Michał Barański, one of the most famous and charismatic Polish jazz contrabassists;
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Matt Shipp Mat Walerian M-theory project represented by Matthew Shipp, the renowned American avant-garde jazz piano player in co with Mat Walerian, the well-known Polish jazz saxophonist and woodwind player;
- Overcrowded concert halls, multiple encores and albums ‘sold out’ - it concerns the Polish Bester Quartet. It is probably the most professional jazz klezmer band on the global stage;
- Aladdin Killers presented a perfect mixture of jazz and electronic music (to our mind, quite a rare phenomenon);
- The avalanche of sound produced by the KAOS Protokoll from Switzerland has covered the audience. The musicians state that they play 'soundtracks to the end of the world';
- The Festival was closed by the performance of Kuba Stankiewicz, the renowned Polish jazz pianist with the KILAR programme. Mr Stankiewicz presented his penetrative interpretations of compositions, written by the great Polish contemporary classical and cinematic music composer Wojciech Kilar.
Besides, for the first time the Festival conducted the Jazz School for young musicians in the Polish city of Przemysl, which was attended by over twenty young jazz musicians from Ukraine. And, as always, the Jazz Bez programme included jam sessions, photo exhibitions, and many other collateral actions.
Jazz Bez 2013 organisers: Dzyga Art Association (Lviv), Polish Institute in Kyiv, Consulate General of Poland in Lviv, Consulate General of Poland in Lutsk, Centrum Kulturalne w Przemyślu (Przemysl,)Jazzva Club (Kyiv), Centrum Kultury w Lublinie (Lublin), Warsztaty Kultury (Lublin), Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Kharkiv), Lutsk Jazz Club (Lutsk), Jam Jazz Club (Rivne), Koza Art Association (Ternopil), Shynok Art Club (Ternopil), Indie Independent Cultural Centre (Kharkiv), Transkultura Foundation (Poland-Ukraine), Institute for Contemporary Art (Lviv), NGO Virmenska 35 (Lviv)
The Festival was supported by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The Festival was held within The Art of Tolerance campaign against xenophobia in Ukraine with the support of the SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation
General Festival Drink: Buchach
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